Anyone
interested in a subject for provocative discussion with or among women,
try this one. A study published a couple of weeks ago appears to
answer the question, as one critic put it, "Is feminism making us fat?"
Results of the study, say its authors, suggest that the decrease in
"the sum of time spent in food preparation, post-meal cleaning activities
(e.g., dish-washing), clothing maintenance (e.g., laundry), and general
housework " accompanying a sedentary lifestyle may have contributed to the increasing prevalence of
obesity in women during the last five decades." Think of all the money
that might have been saved if not spent on all those alternatives to
weight loss and more women had merely hung there laundry outdoors. I
jest, of course. (Or, do I ?) Since the number of men involved in "home
ec" over the same period was, I expect, minimal, the results of the
study would be inapplicable to them except for future consideration.
Scrub the floors America!
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0056620